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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Request for proposal - but may have a narrower or more specific meaning






2. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






3. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






4. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






5. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






6. Narrative description of products - services or results






7. Reserve






8. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






9. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






10. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






11. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






12. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






13. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






14. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






15. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






16. Budgeted cost of work performed






17. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






18. Information gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each projects strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by risk management






19. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






20. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






21. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






22. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






23. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






24. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






25. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






26. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






27. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






28. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






29. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






30. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






31. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used






32. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






33. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






34. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






35. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






36. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






37. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






38. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






39. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






40. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






41. Indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. also called risk symptoms or warning signs. should be watched or monitored in the risk monitoring and control process.






42. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






43. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






44. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






45. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






46. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






47. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






48. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






49. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






50. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration